- Description
- Don Hearn is an Editor and Correspondent who hails from a badminton-loving town in rural Canada. He joined the Badzine team in 2006 to provide coverage of the Korean badminton scene and is committed to helping Badzine to promote badminton to the place it deserves as a global sport. Contact him at: don @ badzine.net
![Korean shuttlers made a big noise in the Korea Open mixed doubles first round, which ended with Kim Ha Na and Seo Seung Jae causing one upset, balancing one Korea […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170912_1945_KoreaOpen2017_YVES9960_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA OPEN 2017 Day 1 – Koreans drop two seeds from mixed main draw")
![The Korea Open got underway with exciting matches right from qualifiers as Sudirman Surprise pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa fought through to the main draw. By Don Hearn, Badzine […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170912_1146_KoreaOpen2017_YVES8920_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA OPEN 2017 Day 1 – Mixed heats up early")
![World Championship, SEA Games, and Universiade gold medallists are due in Seoul next week, along with most of the defending champions for the last edition of the Korea Open as […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Korea-collage_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA OPEN 2017 Preview – The gang’s … mostly here!")
![Tai Tzu Ying hit for the cycle by winning gold and Wang Chi-Lin and Seo Seung Jae traded disciplines from their last event in Taipei as Korean men’s doubles was […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170616_1823_IndonesiaOpen2017_BPRS5980_rotator-115x115.jpg "UNIVERSIADE – 5 of 6 golds for the home team")
![Viktor Axelsen may be the first Dane in 20 years to be crowned men’s singles World Champion but Nozomi Okuhara won her nation’s first world title in 40! By Don […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170827_1648_WorldChampionships2017_BPRS1145_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLDS 2017 Finals – 20 & 40-year waits end")
![While veterans like Lin Dan and Liliyana Natsir have the chance to add to large collections of World Championship trophies, both women’s finals feature nothing but first-time finalists after Fukushima/Hirota […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170825_2146_WorldChampionships2017_BPRA7326-115x115.jpg "WORLDS 2017 SF – New women’s champions on the way")
![Kirsty Gilmour continued her dominance of world #7 He Bingjiao, beating the Chinese youngster in three games to keep Scottish hopes alive in the BWF World Championships in Glasgow. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170824_2020_WorldChampionships2017_BPRA5630-115x115.jpg "WORLDS 2017 R16 – Gilmour past He at home")
![Men’s doubles top seeds Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen could face two-time defending champion Mohammad Ahsan in their very first match at the World Championships. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170618_1954_IndonesiaOpen2017_BPRS4170-1-115x115.jpg "Draws out for Worlds: Top seeds could play defending champion in first match")
![Chae Yu Jung / Seo Seung Jae became the only repeat mixed doubles Aussie champions during its Sydney era. Shi Yu Qi and Ou Xuan Yi / Liu Yu Chen […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20221120_1349_AustralianOpen2022_BPLV0036_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN Finals – Historic repeat the feat"){kind=small}
![Blink or leave your seat to buy fast food and it would turn out to have a different outcome from what you were initially led to believe in more than […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20221119_1522_AustralianOpen2022_BPLV0034_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN SF – Fancy seeing you on Sunday"){kind=small}
![In doubles, at a baseline level the pair needs to be reliable and then have something special on top of that to make it further. By Aaron Wong, Badzine Correspondent […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/2022-QF-WD1-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF – Finding that little bit extra"){kind=small}
![Drama mixed with entertainment fueled the marquee singles matches. By Aaron Wong, Badzine Correspondent live in Sydney. Photos: Badmintonphoto (archives) World #3 vs world #27 The ultra-popular and charismatic 2021 […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20220715_2118_SingaporeOpen2022_BPYL4448_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN R16 – What actually happened in the last match of the night?"){kind=small}
![It was like a final in the first round as Seo Seung Jae and Kang Min Hyuk took on recent Hylo Open winners Lu/Yang in Sydney. By Aaron Wong, Badzine […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20220705_1622_MalaysiaMasters2022_BPES3440_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN R32 – Wish it were longer"){kind=small}
